“People are surely built differently here.”

“In January, I left my home in New York and followed the snowstorms to New Hampshire. Each swipe from my windshield wipers gave me clarity to the new life I was heading towards; an endless winter.”

“I hadn’t really thought much about how little time I’ve spent around lakes before moving up here, but now I think about it every time I hike up to an overlook of Squam.”

“I completely understand the feeling of waking up early to an alarm that you did not want to set, but if you need a sign to do that yourself and get out there to see the sunrise, this is it.”

“This region has given me childhood memories that I still cherish to this day decades later.”

“My assumption, when I joined the LRCC, was that I would have five housemates. A second, more implicit assumption was that all of these housemates would be human.”

“Whatever happened to New England snow?”

“I didn’t anticipate thinking of Siberia very often in New Hampshire, but it crossed my mind possibly every other day in my first few weeks here.”

“Spending most of my time with LRCC AmeriCorps and The Nature Conservancy has exposed me to some of the greatest preserves I’ve ever seen.”

“This program has been a blast, and I’m looking forward to what the rest of the term has in store.”